🧩 Deb Updater

A modern GUI-based update manager for manually installed .deb applications.
Fetches the latest versions from GitHub, compares them, installs updates, and optionally sends email alerts.

Includes:

• 🛎️ System tray icon for quick access
• 🔁 Autostart on user login
• 🧠 Persistent per-user configuration
• 📨 Email notifications
• 💡 Fallback to AppImage if .deb not available

✨ Features

• ✅ Auto-updates for GitHub-hosted .deb packages
• 📨 Optional email alerts and update summaries
• 🛎️ Tray icon (via yad) for manual activation
• 🔁 Autostarts at login for all users
• 🧠 Remembers email preferences per user
• 💡 Works with .deb and .AppImage formats

📦 Dependencies

The installer auto-checks and installs required packages:

• curl
• zenity
• yad
• mailutils
• libnotify-bin (notify-send)
• gpg (for encrypted Gmail app passwords)

🚀 Installation

Run the installer script:

chmod +x install-deb-updater.sh
./install-deb-updater.sh

This will:

• Copy system-wide scripts to /usr/local/bin/
• Register tray and autostart launchers
• Add the updater to your system menu

📤 Email Configuration

First-time launch or sudo run will prompt for:

• 📧 Email address for notifications
• ✅ Whether to enable email alerts

Settings are saved to:

~/.deb-updater/config.ini

Encrypted Gmail app passwords can be stored securely using gpg.

🧹 Uninstall

sudo ./uninstall-deb-updater.sh

This will:

• Remove all installed scripts and launchers
• Prompt to delete personal configuration files

📁 Project Structure

Path	Purpose
/usr/local/bin/deb-updater.sh	Main update script
/usr/local/bin/deb-updater-tray.sh	Tray icon launcher
/etc/xdg/autostart/deb-updater.desktop	Autostart GUI on login
/etc/xdg/autostart/deb-updater-tray.desktop	Autostart tray icon on login
/usr/share/applications/deb-updater.desktop	Desktop menu entry
~/.deb-updater/	User configuration, logs, cache

🛰️ Roadmap

• 🔍 Auto-discovery of all manually installed .deb apps
• 🛎️ Tray icon update notifications
• 🔐 GitHub token support for private repo updates
• 📜 Interactive changelogs before installation

👤 Author & License

Created by Tim Leon
Licensed under the MIT License